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  • Published: 5 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141904337
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

A Bit on the Side





'A treat ... each meditate[s] on the subject of love - adulterous, unspoken, clandestine, sometimes cruel - from domestic betrayals to office romances. Whether set in rural Ireland or London, their pages whisper of relished secrets and dreams foolishly clung to' Mail on Sunday

  • Published: 5 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141904337
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize three times and was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, most recently with The Story of Lucy Gault in 2002. Trevor was widely recognized to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language. In 1999, William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was awarded an honorary knighthood for his services to literature. He died in 2016.

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